Without reflection, we can make excuses, create rationalizations, and lie to ourselves.
Your goal might be to run a marathon, but your gateway habit is to put on your running shoes.
(a.) Alt. of Atomical
When preparation becomes a form of procrastination, you need to change something.
What is rewarded is repeated. What is punished is avoided.
To get a habit to stick you need to feel immediately successful – even if it’s in a small way.
The more tasks you can handle without thinking, the more your brain is free to focus on other areas.
Improvements is not just about learning habits, it’s about fine-tuning them.
This is the secret to self-control. Make the cues of your good habits obvious and the cues of your bad habits invisible.
It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop.
Your habits change depending on the room you are in and the cues in front of you.
Without dopamine, desire died. And without desire, action stopped.
Customers will occasionally buy products not because they want them but because of how they are presented to them.
At some point, you need to make sure you’re playing the right game for your skillset.
Professionals take action even when the mood isn’t right. They might not enjoy it, but they find a way to put the reps in.
But one push-up is better than not exercising. It’s better to do less than you hoped than to do nothing at all.
With our bad habits, the immediate outcome usually feels good, but the ultimate outcome feels bad. With good habits, it is the reverse.
When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do.
A genius is not born, but is educated and trained.
The greatest threat to success is not failure but boredom.
If you no longer expect smoking to bring you any benefits, you have no reason to smoke.
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